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One of my brothers read a lot. His head was forever in some book.

Malcolm X

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Malcolm X
Age: 39 †
Born: 1925
Born: May 19
Died: 1965
Died: February 21
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Human Rights Activist
Muslim Minister
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Omaha
Nebraska
Malcolm Little
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
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Malachi Shabazz
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They're not leading our people toward any kind of independence, but they're using their positions and their education and their talent to exploit our people worse than the slave master did during slavery.
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Whenever I walk the street and see people ready to get with it, that's my reward.
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I go for Mao Tse-tung much more than, than Nehru because I think that Nehru brought his country up in a beggar's role.
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When the snakes out in that field begin to realize that if one of their members get out of line, it's going to be detrimental to all of them, they'll keep that, perhaps they'll then take the necessary steps to keep their fellow snakes away from my chickens or away from my children if the responsibility is placed upon them.
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We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves... One can't unite bananas with scattered leaves.
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I was going through the hardest thing, also the greatest thing, for any human being to do to accept that which is already within you, and around you.
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How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours?
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If the Emancipation Proclamation was authentic, you wouldn't have a race problem.
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One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.
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Solve the race problem here, and once you solve the race problem here, you don't have to send these billions of dollars abroad.
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A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds.
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You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get it. Then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it.
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Much of what I say might sound bitter, but it's the truth. Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth. Much of what I say might sound like its hate, but it's the truth
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The white man is going to keep you integration-minded Negroes cooped up here in America, and when you discover that the white man is a trickster, a devil, that he has no intentions of integrating, then you Negroes will run wild.
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I am and always will be a Muslim. My religion is Islam.
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When the whites themselves are attacked, they believe in defending themselves and things of that sort.
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If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress.
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I had blind faith in him. My faith in Elijah Muhammad was more blind and more uncompromising than any faith that any man has ever had for another man. And so I didn't try and see him as he actually was.
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It has been nine years since the Supreme Court decision outlawing segregated schools, yet less than ten per cent of the Negro students in the South are in integrated schools. That isn't integration, that's tokenism!
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